Google search result pages has become one of the most important sources of visitors to content Web sites.

To maximize the number of site visitors, it is important that the pages of the site appear first in as many Google search result pages as possible.

The Google search results are sorted by a factor named page rank. Higher ranked pages have greater chances of appearing first in Google search result pages.

The Google page rank is computed according to a patented algorithm that takes in account incoming and outgoing links of the page.

The exact page rank formula and factors that affect its value are not publically known. However, the rank of a page is informed by the Google Toolbar from queries that it performs to the Google servers.

This class can query Google servers and retrieve the rank of a given page. This way anybody can determine the page rank without needing to install the Google Toolbar.

Google PageRank, a few remarksAs for the last year the big buzz has been on the Google PR formula and the new science of hacking it, I have spent some time myself with it. To discover that although it’s nice to see the green bar filling up the white space in the ranking box, it does not say much about your keyword relevance.